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While we shouldn't exaggerate the Internet's benefits, it can reduce business costs, increase access to information, and create opportunities.
One of NAFTA’s major
benefits
was that it allowed for integrated supply chains across North America.
For people retiring at age 60, the difference between living to 80 and living to 90 is enormous: in the latter case, their pensions would have to pay
benefits
for 50% longer.
Moreover, in this case, the Egyptian army appears far more interested in protecting its enormous economic interests than it is in securing the
benefits
of a civilian government responsive to its citizens.
A recent study by researchers at the LSE reveals that the Internet has increased inequality, with educated, high-income people deriving the greatest
benefits
online and multinational corporations able to grow massively – while evading accountability.
Success here would allow candidate countries to start reaping the
benefits
of greater price transparency, reduced transaction costs, and a solid macroeconomic framework.
Gone are the confident assertions that globalization
benefits
everyone: we must, the elites now concede, accept that globalization produces both winners and losers.
But he clearly recognizes the
benefits
of development aid.
Investment in, say, research and development, despite its long-term benefits, can induce shareowners to sell, punishing the company with a declining stock price.
We have to be able to quantify the benefits, risks, and costs of geoengineering, and compare them to the benefits, risks, and costs of our other options, so that we can make an informed decision.
By enabling countries to make the most of their comparative advantages, the liberalization of trade and investment provides net economic benefits, although it may hurt particular groups that previously benefitted from tariff protections.
For them, the overall economic
benefits
of trade liberalization matter little, if their own narrow interests are being undercut.
Failure to ratify the TPP in all 12 countries would be a major disappointment, not just because of the tremendous amount of effort that has gone into it, but also – and more important – because of the vast economic
benefits
it would bring to all countries involved.
Just as Democrats have long championed more government spending, and more
benefits
for more people, either on ideological grounds or as a political coalition-building strategy, so Republicans have regarded the goal of lowering taxes.
The debt dilemmas in Europe and the US prove yet again that elected officials will ignore long-run costs to achieve short-run benefits, and will act only when forced, in a doomed effort to circumvent the laws of economics and revoke the laws of arithmetic.
The second is to somehow restrict welfare
benefits
to "natives."
Given the already high unemployment levels that exist across much of the Continent, and the already heavy pressures on government finances, European voters may be unwilling to accept more adjustments and the hardships they appear to bring, no matter the proposed long-term
benefits.
The international community must understand that the political
benefits
of not alienating the old elite while offering new opportunities to traditionally excluded groups outweigh the financial cost.
While the economic
benefits
we get from biodiversity might seem intangible, they are real and quantifiable.
Another approach for policymakers is to quantify the economic
benefits
of “ecosystem services” – the miraculous yet mundane things that nature provides like erosion control, water management, and purification.
The
benefits
from ecosystem services in Latin America amount to $11 trillion, according to one prominent economist’s methodology.
But, while this implies that the
benefits
of conservation outstrip the costs by an extraordinary margin, the calculations have been widely criticized.
Sorting out the
benefits
is one thing.
Thus, the
benefits
are between four and 6.8 times greater than the cost.
Using a more realistic approach, and including monitoring and administration costs, the outlay for governments will still be less than half of the economic
benefits.
A lot more research needs to be done to establish the true costs and
benefits
of protecting forest ecosystems and biodiversity.
Moreover, the
benefits
of improved air quality in these areas are less relevant than in Paris or other big cities.
First, to make carbon taxes popular, their economic
benefits
must be visible to all citizens.
But, as some of the French protestors argued, their focus is on financial survival until “the end of the month,” not on
benefits
a decade from now.
The conclusion is clear: the costs of corruption far outweigh the
benefits
– and not only in China.
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